Was punk DIY? Is DIY punk? Interrogating the DIY/punk nexus, with particular reference to the early UK punk scene, c. 1976–1984

McKay, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7770-0502 (2024) Was punk DIY? Is DIY punk? Interrogating the DIY/punk nexus, with particular reference to the early UK punk scene, c. 1976–1984. DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society, 2 (1). pp. 94-109. ISSN 2753-8702

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Abstract

This article offers a critical provocation and reconceptualisation of the DIY/punk nexus, both to challenge the standard critical narrative of punk as originary DIY culture and to liberate the broader practice of DIY from the limits of punk. It critically traces the development of the discourse of DIY both in original British punk c. 1976–1984 and in what has become punk studies, mapping the development of the scholarly orthodoxy. It then challenges the latter via an interrogation of aspects of punk that have been repeatedly presented in the scholarship as evidence of its DIY-ness: punk mediation, instrumentation, and participation. These three then constitute a context for the central and more detailed critical exploration of the most widely accepted DIY/punk practice, the independent or self-produced record, which is also read as ‘non-DIY.’ The article concludes by widening the critical gaze via a call for DIY to undergo a process of depunking.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	punk rock,punk studies,diy,music,cultural studies,sdg 12 - responsible consumption and production,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth,4* ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1210
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Nov 2023 03:01
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2024 13:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93841
DOI:	10.1177/27538702231216190

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